Setup Matters

A new Street Fighter coming out, an upcoming Tears for Fears album, and constant background fears of nuclear war: Lots of late-80s nostalgia going on today, as we spend an hour discussing a single issue.

Today's meeting covered triage and discussion of the perils of relying on the cloud (aka other people's computers). It was prime. Literally, as 229 is a prime number. In fact, it's the 50th prime number, which must be an important anniversary deserving of celebration.

Rob's "manual digital automation system" -- where "digital" refers to fingers -- didn't quite get around to sending mail notifying everyone of today's meeting. So while we didn't have a thundering horde of viewers watching the live stream, we nonetheless managed to attract someone new, who'd never attended before. I'll call that a win!

Today's meeting is the first in 2022 and the first being live-streamed on YouTube. Those two (mildly) interesting facts did not substantially change our long-proven formula: Triage issues, talk about stuff, make bad jokes.

In a rare reversal of end-of-year weather fortune, my driveway in Michigan is dry and Rob's in Washington is snow-covered. (I'm entirely confident that this will not hold true over the next several months.) Before Rob got out the snow shovel, we quickly reviewed a couple of open issues and reviewed some pull requests, mostly from Sean, whose driveway is an unknown state, but likely also snow-free.

There were no skipped meetings due to illness, but we nonetheless managed to accumulate a larger-than-average number of issues to triage. However, on closer inspection, a supermajority of new issues came from those pesky WiX contributors, who are well known for causing extra work for the WiX contributors, pesky and non-pesky alike.